Glacier National Park (Two Medicines) - Grand Falls, National Parks trip Day 6, July 2011

Went to check out this local lake before we headed to Glacier national park again. (We wanted to go to the east of Glacier which was the Two Medicines area...) Weather that day was bad so we really couldn't tell if the local lake was all that pretty...:p

So we had a pretty interesting experience when we got to two medicines. We were actually in trouble and a "Park Ranger" gave us a ticket for driving 20 miles above speed limit...seriously...park ranger...Oh well...I guess it's something to remember for a life time...

Weather was getting bad and Billy was a little bumped out by the ticket I think....but we certainly didn't look like that in the pictures? :)



Did a little hiking to the falling Eagle fall...There were actually some weird Mexican looking kids (I think they might be Indians) trying to chat with us with bunch of questions...just kinda odd...

While we were driving back south the weather got crazy and was raining really hard on the road...I guess we were lucky it didn't happen while we were still at Glacier...

Couldn't really find any place with high rating open at the time of our arrival...so we ended up having dinner at this semi-fancy Italian place...Not too bad, but also not too impressive :p

Missoula - Glacier National Park, National Parks trip Day 5, July 2011

The destination for today was Glacier national park. On the way there we stopped twice...1st time to take a photo of a huge lake, 2nd time at the Bison Range...

Can you see the lake behind us? the biggest one on the west coast I think....or west of Mississippi...

2nd stop for the day was the bison range....What did we see? well...bunch of bison...The pile of bones at the entrance was pretty impressive.....:p

We got to Glacier national park and went to the lake which was close to the hotel inside of the park...Water was super clean there...

This reminded me of Canada...right next to the hotel in the park...

The tour bus in the park...

Newlyweds who had a wedding in the park...too bad they don't look too good...:p

There were people riding horses in the park...

While we were driving through the glaciers traffic was very bad due to road works...

Because of the traffic jam we were lucky to see those mountain goats right next to us while we were climbing up the mountains...very rare occasion....

According to what we read the glaciers will probably disappear around 2020...so we will have to come back before that if we still want to see any....


Finally tried the Huckleberry ice cream from one of the stores in the park...

Last shots of the glaciers before we headed out...

I guess this was one of the famous chains around the states we went through on this trip....had dinner here and called that the day....

Cradle of the moon- Missoula, National Parks trip Day 4, July 2011

For day 4, we went to this place called "Cradle of the moon" which looked like the moon because of the volcanic movements that happened long time ago. There are still some lava flowing beneath the ground....

It was a long drive to Missoula, which is like a small college town in the north. We had to pass through Idaho in the day, and there wasn't much to see....

All we did in Missoula was to eat an interesting restaurant called "silk road". They had dishes from diff. countries along the silk road...I was impressed with the African squash soup and the sea salt ice cream...


Found a huge one....made Billy look like a kid blowing it...lol